Tricia Helfer

I have tried to determine whether there is anything insidious in Syfy turning "Ascension," originally described as a six-part miniseries, into a "three-night event" and setting it afloat in the relatively dead waters of mid-December.

But I have no idea, really. Perhaps this is the absolute best time to air something you're not sure anyone will watch, the competition being relatively light.

The series, a Canadian co-production — I suspected as much when one character told some others to "take off" — is set aboard a city-like spacecraft, bigger than the Empire State Building and launched on a century-long secret mission to colonize another world....

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